secretory pathway

Introduction

Production & exportation of a physiologically active substance (cytokine, hormone, enzyme) by a cell or a gland, including mucous secretions of epithelial cells lining the respiratory tract.

Elements of the intracellular secretory pathway include:

• maturation of secreted proteins & peptides in the GOLGI
• transport & storage in secretory vesicles
• signals resulting in fusion of secretory vesicles with the plasma membrane

More general terms

• secretion
• molecular pathway

More specific terms

• neurosecretion

Additional terms

• body secretion
• secreted protein

Database

• Kegg: http://www.genome.jp/dbget-bin/www_bget?
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• Kegg: http://www.genome.jp/dbget-bin/www_bget?
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